Plate
ca. 1760-1770 (made)
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Circular plate with waved edge and blue-grey ground, the centre painted in manganese and blue with a stylized plant and encircled with a band of diapered and plant ornament in manganese, the border with 'bianco sopra bianco' decoration of stylized plants and diapered panels with rococo borders
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and manganese and with <i>bianco sopra bianco</i> decoration |
| Brief description | Earthenware plate made by Pierre-François Fauquez's pottery factory, at Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, about 1760-1770 |
| Physical description | Circular plate with waved edge and blue-grey ground, the centre painted in manganese and blue with a stylized plant and encircled with a band of diapered and plant ornament in manganese, the border with 'bianco sopra bianco' decoration of stylized plants and diapered panels with rococo borders |
| Marks and inscriptions | interlaced monogram 'PFF' [?] for Pierre-François-Joseph Fauquez |
| Credit line | Mellor Bequest |
| Production | Acquired as Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, c. 1760. For an identical plate with this mark see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Paris & Rouen - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 115 top, where dated to c. 1750. However, for this mark and style of decoration see R. J. Charleston in Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, 1963, pp 229-30. |
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| Accession number | C.26-1963 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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